Word: turrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb of best design is 700 ft. sec. That is about half the striking speed of a 12-inch armor-piercing coast guard rifle shell at close range. But air bombs are not armor-piercing. They explode on contact. To reach a Queen Elizabeth magazine from between the forward turrets (extremely lucky hit), a bomb would have to penetrate one unarmored deck, one 2-inch armor deck, another 1¼-inch armor deck, another 1-inch armor deck, and then the magazine's 9-inch armor ceiling-a total of 13¼ inches of armor. But the bomb would...
Highest high jinks: Charles Laughton having himself a wonderful time in the turret of Notre Dame, playing the bells with his feet, swinging apelike from the bell ropes, dropping building blocks and raining a vast cauldron of molten lead through gargoyles' mouths down on his fellow citizens in the square below...